I was reading a 2014 article in the Handloader on the 300 Savage reloads. It seems that 42 to 44 grains of Varget and 150 grain Speer RN worked very well for the author. I was sure I had a couple hundred 150 grain RN Remington bullets laying around, but I can't find them. I did find a big bag of 170 RN CL's though. That was my go to bullet for 30-30 lever action silhouette. At the ranges I was planning on shooting deer, I think that the difference in trajectory and energy between a spire point and a boat tail compared to a round nose bullet would mean very little.. So I was looking for loads with 300 Savage and 170 grain bullets. I understand that Sierra has good data for the 300, but not so much some other manuals. My Sierra manual is dated, I think it may have been their first or second manual. I looked in the Hodgon manual and the loads are way to high pressure for the 99.
I think that the 170 grain round nose will stabilize well in the 99. But I'm wanting to test.
I could buy some 150 grain Speers, but I have a lot of 170's.
My question was the same as TNBigBore's regarding game. I suspect that the 170 grain RN Core Lokt's will work very well on deer at 300 velocity levels.
Anyone else have a favorite powder for 170's in the 300 and care to share your load??? (I'll try TomT's IMR4064 loads) I was thinking Varget, TAC and some others.
Last edited by Bugger; 06/14/19.
